Citizen TV news anchor Jeff Koinange, gave a detailed interview of his first-ever girlfriend, Yoko Seki, a Japanese national who used to be his schoolmate.
Speaking during his Hot 96 FM show on May 2018, the veteran presenter revealed that the two of them became an item back when Jeff was just six years old.
“Seki’s dad worked for JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency),” he started the story.
The two met back in 1972, going on to become quite inseparable.
"Yoko was a sweet little kid, so we struck a talking relationship. And I remember one day she was dying to talk to me and she wrote me a letter but she wrote it in conjunction with some other girls," he recalled.
“And in the letter, they put some chocolates, you know, like a chocolate bar and it was the sweetest thing I had ever seen," he added.
The JKLive show host went on to reminisce about how the two used to get along, going on to reveal that Seki was really well connected to some influential individuals in the country at the time.
“So Yoko and her sister Megumi were very good friends with the Japanese Ambassador’s kids who used to drive in a big black Royce. Yoko and her sister would always join them because I think they lived somewhere close to each other,” recounted Jeff.
"She was my first love, in my head at least," he went on to explain.
Their young love came to an end when the celebrated anchor was forced to switch schools.
He has since gone on to marry Shaila Koinange, a Kenyan of an Asian origin and they are blessed with one son by the name Jamal Mbiyu Koinange.
The Standard disclosed that the two met in 1986 while auditioning to be flight attendants for Pan American World Airways.
According to his autobiography, Through My African Eyes, the two were later married in 1998, after having to postpone their wedding because terrorists bombed the US Embassy in Nairobi.
"The bombing forced us to cancel our wedding and put it on hold. We had already made plans for our honeymoon," Jeff narrated.
He married Shaila four years after he separated from his first wife, Sonya, a Panamanian, in 1994.
Here's the video of Koinange's trip down memory lane:
